CREATING A CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR ELECTRICAL SAFETY

Increasing OSHA regulation and industry's desire to reduce accidents, injuries, and related costs has focused interest on improving industri al electrical safety performance. Efforts to improve the safety of per sonnel exposed to industrial electrical hazards may be considered part of an overall strategy to eliminate defects in manufacturing processe s. This paper presents a blue print for strategy, design, and implemen tation of processes to link electrical safety to total quality improve ment. Based on the experiences of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., (her eafter referred to as ''the Company''), applied methods, results, and future strategies are discussed. A continuous improvement process is a pplies to several examples, including the previously published Electri cally Hazardous Task Classification Flow Sheet.